Themelis, Sandy Thomas, Andy Tobias, John and Nancy Jack Todd, Michael Totten,

Haruki Tsuchiya, Christine von Weizsäcker, Stuart White, Bob Williams, Daniel Yergin,
Susumu Yoda, and Vlatko Zagar.

Included in this group are a smaller group of reviewers—Alan AtKisson, Dave Brower,
Fritjof Capra, Diana Cohn, Robert Day, Christopher Juniper, Fran and David Korten,
Scott McVay, David Orr, Peter Raven, Bill Rees, Peter Senge, Frank Tugwell, Joanna
Underwood, Sarah Van Gelder, Mathis Wackernagel, Peter Warshall, Jim Womack, and
others—who provided exceptionally thoughtful critiques which greatly improved the
book and for which we are both grateful and beholden. We are also hugely indebted to
Bio Schmidt-Bleek and his pioneering work in resource productivity. His leadership has
propelled the subject to the very top of the environmental agenda in Europe and richly
informs this work. A very special mention goes to architect Tom Bender who was
proposing the possibility of Factor Ten productivity in the early 1970s in the magazine
RAIN, heard then by only a few, now echoed back in this and other works to many.
Special thanks to Ray Anderson, Chairman of Interface, for his support and leadership, as
well as his innovative colleagues including Charlie Eitel, Mike Bertolucci, Jim Hartzfeld,
and John McIntosh, who are creating perhaps the best archetypal firm so far of the next
industrial revolution.

Vital research support came from, among others, RMI's Dan Bakal, Jennifer Constable,
Rick Heede, Ross Jacobs, Dan LeBlanc, André Lehmann, Louis Saletan, Auden
Schendler, and Kipchoge Spencer, and from Paul Hawken's assistants—Kelly Costa,
Andre Heinz, and Jeanne Trombly; special thanks also to Paul's associates at The Natural
Step who were extraordinarily helpful and generous: Catherine Gray, Jill Rosenblum,
John Hagen, Dane Nichols, Kate Fish, Karl-Henrik Robèrt, and Ed Skloot. Kerry
Tremaine provided key insights and help in an early draft of a magazine article that
preceded the book. We are also grateful for graphics help to Ema Tibbetts, for editorial
counsel to Norm Clasen, Dave Reed, and Farley Sheldon, and for logistical support to
JoAnn Glassier, Marty Hagen, Ruth Klock, Chad Laurent, Lisa Linden, Robert Noiles,
Jennifer Schwager, and Marilyn Wien.

A special thank-you also to the following individuals whose contributions to this book
cannot be easily summarized or acknowledged, but surpass expectations and generosity:
Michael Baldwin, Jennifer Beckman, Maniko Dadigan, Cindy Roberts, Reed Slatkin, and
Roz Zander. Ultimately, it is the editor who brings a work to life and the public. For his
endurance, patience, and skill, we thank Rick Kot of Little, Brown. His belief in this
work and its implications was invaluable. Many of the facts, ideas, and lessons in this
book have come from these hundreds of collaborators. Our interpretations, and any
mistakes that eluded detection, remain our sole responsibility. Readers who point out
errors and omissions, and who add even better stories and ways to tell them, will earn our
special thanks and the gratitude of all who labor to build further on these foundations.